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$57.50
1y57a/1

The Great Adventure Ends: New Zealand and France on the Western Front


PHILIPPE, NATHALIE & PUGSLEY, CHRISTOPHER & CRAWFORD, JOHN & STROHN, MATTHIAS (eds)

Super 8vo, pp. 424; black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: John Douglas Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand France First World War One I 1 WW1 WWI 20th century military history Western Front

$165.00
1y57a/2

Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts


DI BELLO, PATRIZIA

Super 8vo, pp.x + 183; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Ashgate 2007

KEYWORDS: women women's albums photography photographers 19th century Victorian England social conditions history

$40.00
1y57a/4

Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941


PEARCE, JEFF

Super 8vo, pp. 616; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; bdg sloppy); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Skyhorse Publishing 2014

KEYWORDS: Jeff Pearce Ethiopia Africa Italy Mussolini fascism 20th century military history

$60.00
1y57a/12

The Dialogics of Contemporary Art: Painting Politics


INGRAM, SIMON & MINISSALE, GREGORY & VERCOE, CAROLINE & WYNNE-JONES, VICTORIA (eds)

Imp. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing, creasing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Kerber Art 2022

KEYWORDS: contemporary art history artists criticism interpretation theory

$200.00
1y57a/13

The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East


Proceedings of a conference at the British Museum, 29th September-1st October 2005

CURTIS, JOHN; SIMPSON, St JOHN (eds)

Imp. 8vo, pp. xviii + 626; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: I. B. Tauris 2010

KEYWORDS: John Curtis St John Simpson Achaemenid Persia ancient history Asia Near East Iran

$65.00
1y57a/14

A Hundred Years of Settlement: The Story of Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel


GVATI, CHAIM

Imp. 8vo, pp. viii + 202; yellow heavy card boards, spine lettered in brown; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from sticker to ffep); in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading, scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Keter Publishing Houe 1985

KEYWORDS: Chaim Gvati Jewish settlement Israel 20th century 20th century history politics

$125.00
1y57a/18

Amerika: Tim Rollins & K.O.S.


GARRELS, GARY (ed)

Obl 4to, pp. 87; tan cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & moderate to heavy soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & foxing).

PUBLISHER: Dia Art Foundation 1989

KEYWORDS: Gary Garrels Tim Rollins 20th century art artists criticism interpretation history

$45.00
1y57a/19

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2020


BOOTH, LAWRENCE (ed)

Foolscap 8vo, pp. 1536; brown heavy card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; photos, plates; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sm tear to front cover).

PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co. 2020

KEYWORDS: Lawrence Booth John Wisden Cricketers' Almanack anthology cricker sport sporting history

$40.00
1y57a/20

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2019


BOOTH, LAWRENCE (ed)

Foolscap 8vo, pp. 1536; brown heavy card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; photos, plates; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; some creasing to pg extrems at head); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: John Wisden & Co. 2019

KEYWORDS: Lawrence Booth John Wisden Cricketers' Almanack anthology cricker sport sporting history

$75.00
1y16b/5

The Times, London, Friday, June 4, 1852


N/A

Elephant folio (folded to quarto size in plastic cover) 12pp total (pgs 1-8 newspaper & pgs 9-12 supplement), in remarkably VG condition (light to moderate chipping/cracking to spine/centrefold, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, any soiling & discolouration is age appropriate & quite minor, occasional historical price ink stamp)

PUBLISHER: The Times 1852

KEYWORDS: old newspapers past issues The Times England printed news journalism 19th nineteenth century British broadsheets historical history

$120.00
1y16b/6

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1878, Vol XI (Issued May 1879)


HECTOR, JAMES

Super octavo, pink stiffened boards, black lettering to sm title plate to spine, xvii + 582pp + appendix to rear, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing/creasing & discolouration to spine- minor loss to extrems, boards completely detached but present, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, page block is securely bound but has minor occasional cracking throughout, occasional page may be uncut)

PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair, Printers, Lambton Quay 1879

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Institute transactions proceedings past issues history historical

$150.00
1y16b/7

The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York (Third Edition, with Many Additions and Corrections)


WHITAKER, THOMAS DUNHAM & MORANT, A W (Ed) & MIALL, L C (Extra Chapter)

BOARDS & SPINE DETACHED BUT PRESENT (partial spine only), heavy quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering/numbering & raised bands to spine, teg, marbled eps, map of Craven loosely enclosed, illus prelims, folding map to prelims, xxii + addenda + 655pp, illus/folding charts, G- (top portion of spine missing, spine & boards completely detached but present, light to moderate chafing to boards, light fading & tape staining/discolouration to rear board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to exposed binding, moderate cracking to gutters, some sporadic creasing to folding charts, actual contents/page block in generally tidy condition)

PUBLISHER: Leeds: Joseph Dodgson, London: Cassell Petter & Galpin 1878

KEYWORDS: English counties York Craven cities history antiquarian books

$245.00
os2/70

The Windows of King's College Chapel Cambridge: A Description and Commentary (Corpus Vitrearum Medii- Great Britain - Supplementary Volume I)


WAYMENT, HILARY & WORMALD, Professor FRANCIS (Fore) & HARRISON, KENNETH (Contributions)

THIS VOL ONLY, heavy folio, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, old sepia photo tipped in to ffep, frontispiece, xxxvi + 140pp + plates/illus, VG+ (minor soiling & tape staining to boards & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor tape staining to front & rear eps, minor foxing to prelims, sl occasional foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1972

KEYWORDS: stained glass windows Cambridge King's College chapel history theology art

$100.00
1y16b/11

Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1868 Vol I (Second Edition)


HECTOR, JAMES (Ed)

SECOND EDITION, super octavo, pink stiff card boards, black lettering to title plate on blue cloth spine, xvii + 490pp, folding maps/illus, VG (light scuffign & bruising to cover & spine edges, minor chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light separation/cracking to front gutter, occasional minor markings throughout)

PUBLISHER: George Didsbury, Gov't Printer 1875

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Institute transactions proceedings past years history historical data 19th nineteenth century

$100.00
1y16b/12

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Volume I: Wellington


N/A

Heavy quarto, half leatherbound black patterned boards, gilt lettering to spine, speckling to page edges, patterned eps, illus title page, xxvii + 1525pp, illus, VG- (heavy rubbing & scuffing to leatherwork on spine & boards, heavy crack to front hinge of spine/board, moderate to heavy chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, moderate soiling & tanning to prelims, heavy crack at gutter of preface page, light to moderate foxing & soiling to terminals & rear eps, binder's sm label to rear pastedown, rear board warped at fore-edge)

PUBLISHER: The Cyclopedia Company 1897

KEYWORDS: New Zealand cyclopedias Wellington regional history

$350.00
1y16b/16

20 Battalion and Armoured Regiment (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45)


PRINGLE, D J C & GLUE, W A

ALL MAPS PRESENT, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 631pp, illus/photos, folding maps- all present, VG+ (minor rubbing & bruising to spine, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor creasing to edge of Italy Map No 2) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- adhesive edges, moderate to heavy chipping & loss to spine extrems, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official war history series 20 twenty battalion armoured regiment ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$375.00
1y16b/17

23 Battalion (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45)


ROSS, ANGUS

ALL MAPS PRESENT, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 506pp, illus, folding maps- all present, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl adhesive staining to eps) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover- adhesive edges, edges likely stained, light tanning & soiling, 9cm closed tear to front cover- tidily repaired)

PUBLISHER: War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs 1959

KEYWORDS: New Zealand official war history series 23 twenty three battalion ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$45.00
1y24b/2

Stateless


KOSLOFF, ANNA & BILBOROUGH, ANNA

Octavo, white heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, vi + 214pp, VG+ (light bruising & tanning to board edges, sl soiling & foxing to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Greenhouse Publications 1983

KEYWORDS: persecution Russian Russia true stories Anna Kosloff heroic women history 20th twentieth century

$100.00
1y24b/6

American Notes 1924, and, France and Belgium in War Time


FENWICK, Sir GEORGE

Octavo, maroon buckram soft boards/covers, gilt lettering to front cover, pink speckling to page edges, 125pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & cover edges, sl tanning to page edges & eps, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Co 1927

KEYWORDS: travel notes history historical Sir George Fenwick US America France Belgium New Zealand

$47.50
1y24b/9

Silent Movies: The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture


KOBEL, PETER & SCORSESE, MARTIN (Fore) & BROWNLOW, KEVIN (Intro)

Quarto, black heavy boards, grey & blue lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, xvi + 301pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company 2007

KEYWORDS: silent movies film history cinema

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